Texas congressman: Fort Hood jihadist wired money to Pakistan

Post-Traumatic Wire Transfer Disorder? Maybe that's what made him "snap," because, as you know, the mainstream media insists it can't be Islam. "Fort Hood shooting suspect sent money to Pakistan, Texas congressman says," by Dave Michaels and Lee Hancock for the Dallas Morning News, November 13:

An Austin congressman said Thursday that he has confirmed that Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan, which Muslim extremist groups use as a base to raise funds and carry out terrorist attacks.
Rep. Michael McCaul's statement followed a Dallas Morning News report that authorities were looking into whether such wire transfers had occurred. It also came as Army officials announced charges of premeditated murder against Hasan, who could face the death penalty.
"I have confirmed through independent sources that there were communications and wire transfers made to Pakistan," McCaul said in a prepared statement provided by his spokesman. "This Pakistan connection just raises more red flags about this case and demonstrates why it's important for Congress to exercise its oversight authority."
The spokesman, Mike Rosen, said McCaul wouldn't name his sources. The congressman's statement didn't address who Hasan's contacts in Pakistan were, when he communicated with them or how much money he sent.
McCaul is the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee's intelligence subcommittee. He typically is briefed on classified material but had yet to be formally briefed on the Fort Hood killings.
He "has been actively seeking information from as many credible sources as possible," Rosen said. "It has been more difficult than usual to obtain information from our intelligence community."
Asked about McCaul's comments, an FBI spokesman in Washington said he couldn't comment on any aspect of the investigation.
Evan Kohlmann, a terrorism expert who has consulted with the FBI and the Defense Department, noted that Hasan is a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent, with no known family ties to Pakistan. Kohlmann said that leaves only two reasons for the psychiatrist to wire money to the South Asian country: to support charity or to support jihad.
Westerners who want to give to a legitimate Pakistani charity typically would do so by putting money in a U.S. or British bank account, he added.
"It raises huge alarm bells," Kohlmann said of Hasan's reported wire transfers.

That doesn't do his victims a lot of good at this point.

Pakistan borders Afghanistan, the country to which Hasan was supposed to deploy soon. Pakistan is battling a radical Islamic insurgency and is widely believed to be the hiding place of Osama bin Laden.
Following the money
Dennis Lormel, a former FBI special agent who directed the agency's efforts to identify sources of terrorist financing, said investigators would take note of the large amount of disposable income Hasan apparently had. He made more than $90,000 a year, had no wife or dependents, and paid about $300 a month for a tiny apartment.
"It seems like there is a lifestyle that was beneath his means," said Lormel, now a managing director for IPSA International, a consultant to banks on combating money laundering. "Where is the money going?"
Lormel said Hasan could have used several channels to wire money abroad, including remittance services that cater to immigrant workers who send money to their native countries. If that were the case, there may be documentation of the transaction, Lormel and others said.
Banks and other money transmitters must tell the Treasury Department if an individual sends more than $10,000 outside the country.
Kohlmann said only a "breakdown" could explain the FBI's failure to dig deeper when it discovered late last year that Hasan was communicating by e-mail with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric in Yemen....

A breakdown in priorities: Believing the dogma of political correctness over one's "lying eyes."

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"He "has been actively seeking information from as many credible sources as possible," Rosen said."

Damned certain he'll never come looking at JW.

Peace
Abdullah

Dennis Lormel doesn't need to visit this site. He's an understander of Islam and the dire threat it poses to all nations that respect democracy, human rights, freedom. In other words, he's no dhimmi!

Money to Pakistan, hmmmm ......

The U.S. has been taken to the cleaners with all the money sent to the land of the pure. I just hope Major wasn't trying to free a Spanish Prisoner.

Even the politically correct are right on the verge of getting the point. Check out this blog.

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/blog/show/4617

"I can't help but feel like all the efforts to draw general conclusions on national security from the Ft. Hood tragedy miss an obvious point -- namely, the ways in which terrorism at the low end of the hierarchy overlaps with mental illness."

"The difference being that most cults target sheep, whereas terrorist networks target wolves."

I guess the next logical question would be ... Why is the "religion of peace" filled with wolves? I actually prefer a rabid dog analogy myself. He is sooo close ... the light is flickering.

Perhaps this thing has to do with scripture, and ideology? :-).

AM : Damned certain he'll never come looking at JW.

As always you neatly avoid the issue, ummah-zombie.

Heard or remember reading (maybe it was here) of a stranger coming to Hasan's apartment the day or night before the shooting. It was noted by his neighbors because it was also the first time they had noted someone coming to his apartment, ever. Does anyone remember this? Or am I having a senior moment?

If my memory is sound it would be nice to know who the mystery man was. I can quickly come up with some good guesses. What I have noticed after reading about hundreds of these suicide Islamic death wishers is that they like a little encouragement just before they do their deed. So, my first guess is that it was the local imam or someone from the local mosque. At the very least it was another muslim.

AM

Right on form LIAR, LIAR, LIAR!

AM with his big lies again! Are we surprised? After all, islam is a religion of peace (or should that be pi**?). 90% of of the world conflicts involve one common factor: islam. Yet the BS continues about religion of peace. We kaffirs have had enough of this. It is payback time, folks. Not by violence, but by sending them back where they came from. If they are American and convicted of violence, they should do time in the middle of Alaska, with no heating. You know, allah will protect the believers.

Kohlmann said that leaves only two reasons for the psychiatrist to wire money to the South Asian country: to support charity or to support jihad

When you're talking about Islamic charities, what's the difference?

Kohlmann said that leaves only two reasons for the psychiatrist to wire money to the South Asian country: to support charity or to support jihad

When you're talking about Islamic charities, what's the difference?

Kohlmann said that leaves only two reasons for the psychiatrist to wire money to the South Asian country: to support charity or to support jihad

When you're talking about Islamic charities, what's the difference?

Now, let's think about what, exactly, Islam condemns under the rubric of 'ignorance', jahiliyya.

Here are a few samples of things forbidden by sharia, things that are rejected and attacked - as products of 'ignorance' and 'darkness' - by the psychopathic life-hating sharia-enforcers.

The paintings of Rembrandt.

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~fjseins/RembrandtCatalogue/index.html

The sculpture of Auguste Rodin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rodin_TheKiss_20050609.JPG

http://www.msdlists.com/sculptures/Rodin%20The%20Kiss.html

The poetry of Dante and the engravings of Dore - the Celestial Rose:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paradiso_Canto_31.jpg

And the music of Johann Sebastian Bach - from the Mass in B Minor

first some excerpts from a performance in Notre Dame de Paris, the great French cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XHrT7DBwA

And this, from a different performance, the 'Et Resurrexit', celebrating the Resurrection of the Lord (which, of course, Muslims say did not happen, since they don't even think He was crucified...).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEABN5yejpc&feature=related

All of *that* - everything I have just posted links for - is 'ignorance' according to Islam. ALL of it is classified as 'darkness'. Trash. Un-Islamic. The sharia enforcers want to destroy it *all*.


Oops! Sorry - I meant that posting for a different thread.

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